lizardbyte/sunshine vs mobile-shell/mosh
Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, sunshine and mosh both show healthy maintenance signals. sunshine was committed to 1 week ago with 18+ active contributors, while mosh last saw a commit 5 months ago with 16+ active contributors. Both use the GPL-3.0 license. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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lizardbyte/sunshine
Strong maintenance signals
copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No blocking repository-level signals were found; deployment review is still required.
- ⚠GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓18 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 31% of recent commits)
- ✓GPL-3.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- •Use as dependency Concerns to Mixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard
mobile-shell/mosh
Strong maintenance signals
copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility; dependency CVE scan unavailable
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ⚠GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ✓Last commit 7w ago
- ✓16 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 34% of recent commits)
- ✓GPL-3.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- •Use as dependency Concerns to Mixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| sunshine | mosh | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 40,814 | 13,889 |
| Last commit | 13d ago | 5mo ago |
| License | GPL-3.0 | GPL-3.0 |
| Open issues | 143 | 221 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 28% | — |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | A | — |
| Cycles | 0 | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Healthy signals |
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